GENE SOON PARK

General Counsel & Board Secretary

Mr. Gene Soon Park is the General Counsel and Board Secretary of CGIF. Mr. Park started his legal career as a Korea attorney at the largest law firm in Korea (Kim and Chang), where he gained hands-on experience in capital market transactions, cross-border financial transactions, and project financing. He has served as General Counsel of Korean subsidiaries of global institutions of Lehman Brothers Securities/Bank and Citibank/ Citigroup. He held the position of General Counsel and Board Secretary for Citibank Korea and Citigroup Korea. During and after his studies at Stanford Law School, he participated in a few venture companies, one of which (biotech startup) had won the grand prize of Stanford Entrepreneurship Competition in year 2001.

To be serving now 15 years in CGIF, Mr. Park has been covering all legal matters of bond guarantee, treasury, internal institutions, and human resources, as well as governance, privileges & immunities and policy issues as Board Secretary, functioning as the middle office keyman of an MDB/IFI.

Mr. Park attended & successfully graduated the Law School of Seoul National University (for his Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. in banking and securities regulations, thesis on regulations on financial derivates and commodities), and the Law School of Stanford University (master’s degree in SPILS – Stanford Program for International Legal Studies, thesis on institutional investors role in the securities market).